Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-21-Speech-1-089"
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"Mr President, health is not and cannot be approached as a commodity which, even worse, must be subject to market conditions and competition.
Health has a public utility mission and that is why it must meet a series of criteria such as quality, accessibility, universality and solidarity.
We must put an immediate stop to efforts to extend the market philosophy to the health service sector on the pretext of modernising it, which the Court of Justice has facilitated in its own way and which the spokesmen of economic liberalism are now bringing back on stage.
Unfortunately, this has already happened with some social services. Let us not allow it to be repeated here.
There is no point in bringing health services back within the scope of the Services Directive. This approach was rejected by the European Parliament last November.
The European Commission must have the courage, it must use its right to take legislative initiatives and propose a sectoral directive on health services. It must also have the courage to propose a framework directive regulating social services of general interest.
You, my honourable friends of the right-wing majority, have contributed once again to the lack of credibility of the Union, by unexpectedly reintroducing the question of bringing health services under the Services Directive, known as the Bolkenstein Directive.
Act in accordance with your responsibilities and do not play with the lives of European citizens. Prove with your vote that health is not a commodity."@en1
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